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    How Did Ancient Rome Fall

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    The ancient world’s greatest empire fell‚ so does that mean our country could face the same fate? Rome lays on the Western side of Italy; a mere 30 miles away from the Tiber River. Ancient Rome was home to one million people‚ a feat that could not be surpassed by another city until more than a thousand years later.But the most impressive part is how Ancient Rome managed to capture 1.699 million miles of land. Their success came from the sheer size of their skillful army and the devoted patriotism

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    Did the development in European warfare during the Sixteenth Century amount to a ‘Military Revolution’? By the Sixteenth century‚ Luther had successfully challenged the Catholic Church from 1517 and Copernicus had declared a solar- centric universe in 1543. These are both historical events in early modern Europe. The dramatic changes in Military warfare are also seen as key to European developments in separating the medieval society from the Modern. The military developments change that art and

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    The comedy of Manners emerged during the age of Dryden‚ the age of Restoration. Therefore it is also called Restoration Comedy. “The Restoration comedy of manners reached its fullest expression in The Way of the World (1700) by William Congreve‚ which is dominated by a brilliantly witty couple.” This sort of comedy is called comedy of manners for the writers in the restoration theatre have shown the ‘manners’ and ‘morals’ of the ways of life of the higher class aristocratic fashionable society‚ however

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    should be five square feet space for each of the students. An ideal school is provided with an ideal staff. The teachers of an ideal school are well qualified. They are greatly interested in learning and teaching. They do not have any mercenary motive. They take teacher ship as a mission in their life. They work in the school with a missionary spirit. They are the men of character and integrity. They work together with a team-spirit and with full co-operation and understanding among themselves

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    Syrian Unrest

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    their own group of armed troops mainly consisting of ex-soldiers and weapon users. The clashes now happen in no particular area but in several parts of the country. The president terms the rebellion group “as armed terrorist groups and foreign mercenaries". The protesters have received aid and support from many foreign nations including the United States of America and many Arab nations. The Arab league suspended Syria’s membership in their constituency because of the government’s response to the

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    control is never ending. No matter how he acts or treats his people‚ the citizens never raise any question against him. It is referred to as ecclesiastical state. Army to defend the state can be either of the prince or some mercenaries. But its best to have a prince’s army as mercenaries might turn against the control by gaining more power. The popes gained power in the Roman Empire in a similar manner. Learning the art of war is really important for the prince as it is really crucial skill to maintain

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    Alexander III Conquest

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    offensives‚ repressed Memnon’s attacks in the Aegean Sea‚ and put down a revolt by the Spartan King Agis III‚ feats which required substantial military spending (Le Rider 45-46). He was also responsible for training‚ equipping‚ and supporting the mercenary reinforcements sent east (Le Rider 49). In the rest of the empire‚ the establishment of over 70 towns also required financing (Davies Glyn 83-84). Using coinage already circulating in Egypt‚ Cleomenes spent considerable resources and money building

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    (Stewart 137). The legions‚ armies rather‚ weren’t loyal to the government‚ but rather to their own groups which caused the inevitable to happen (Stewart 137). The inevitable being a drop in patriotism. This led to the government having to hire mercenaries to fight for them‚ which is a big problem in and of itself (Stewart 138). They had to get paid a different amount than regular soldiers but with the cost of a diminished driving force to win because they weren’t willingly fighting (Stewart

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    The Parson

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    parishioners which were scattered all over his parish even in adverse weather conditions. He was a man who practiced what he preached and preached what he practiced. His conduct was unblemished and he was a role model for his parishioners. He was not a mercenary who sublet his parish to another priest while he himself was preoccupied with making money in London. He dwelt among his parishioners and personally watched over them diligently like a good shepherd so that his sheep were not killed by the wolf.

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    Cleopatra

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    passed to 18-year-old Cleopatra and her 10-year-old brother‚ Ptolemy XIII. Soon after the siblings’ ascension to the throne‚ Ptolemy’s advisers acted against Cleopatra‚ who was forced to flee Egypt for Syria in 49 B.C. She raised an army of mercenaries and returned the following year to face her brother’s forces at Pelusium‚ on Egypt’s eastern border. Meanwhile‚ after allowing the Roman general Pompey to be murdered‚ Ptolemy XIII welcomed the arrival of Pompey’s rival‚ Julius Caesar‚ to Alexandria

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